

Having released their 4 th studio full album Map of the Soul: 7 in February 2020, the group followed this up with the more personal introspective BE in November: both albums appeared on the IFPI end of the year album charts with MOT7 topping both IFPI Global Album Sales Chart and IFPI Global Album All Formats Chart. Despite the pandemic, BTS had a record breaking 2020 which has continued in 2021.

In 2020, as a direct result of the pandemic, MTV launched Unplugged at Home livestream series.īTS is the first South Korean group to appear on MTV Unplugged ( Monsta X participated in the Unplugged at Home series of acoustic mini concerts in 2020). The show was then revived in 2010 with the first episode featuring Adam Lambert (who the previous year had been the runner-up on American Idol). Between 20, Unplugged was less regular, and mainly confined to one-off specials. The original series ran from 1989 to 1999. In 1992, Mariah Carey’s cover of the Jackson Five’s I’ll Be There released soon after her set went to number one on the Billboard 100, adding the cover as a staple to an Unplugged set. performances, Unplugged featured iconic sets by some of the most famous musicians of the time including Aerosmith, Elton John, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Nirvana and Oasis, appealing across a wide demographic. With acoustic sets and stripped back, pared down. MTV Unplugged is a flagship MTV programme which was launched on 26 th November 1989 with performances by Elliot Easton (The Cars), Syd Straw and Squeeze.
